The department stores nowadays sell so many beautiful brass and pottery flower jars at a very low price that there is no excuse for any house not having a lovely hanging fern, provided there is a young carpenter at hand to make a nicely stained and waxed bracket from which to suspend it. From our drawing it will be noted that a suitable bracket is not hard to make, as only three pieces of wood are used.

The back board is four by nine inches and should be about one-half inch thick. Three separate curves enter into the form of the top line, but these may be very quickly drawn with the compasses if you make sure they are centered exactly on the points marked with the black dots in the working drawing. Saw away the extra material with the fret saw, and finish the edges smooth with plane and sandpaper. Plane up a strip long enough to make the two pieces that project out, sawing off the one perfectly square and the other at forty-five degrees, which is the angle made by folding a square of paper in two from opposite corners. Fasten the upper one in place by nailing in through the back and then nail on the slanting brace, which operation will require a little care in order to keep from bending the top piece out of place.

This bracket will be found large enough for almost any ordinary flower jar. Sometimes, however, long, narrow, pointed jars are used, in which case a more slender bracket would be appropriate. When a change, such as this, appears desirable, always mark out the lines of the new piece full size on a sheet of paper in order to be sure that it will look well.